Alumni Hall of Fame
2025 Wall of Fame Honorees
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Judge Daniel R. Sulman has served as a judge in the Family Division of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas from July of 2016 to January of 2018 and from December of 2019 through the present following appointments to the bench by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf and subsequent election to a ten-year term in November of 2021. Judge Sulman is a lifelong resident of Philadelphia, a graduate of Philadelphia public schools and a magna cum laude graduate of Temple University, where he earned a B.A. in political science. As an undergraduate, he earned a University Honors Program Certificate and, among other honors, he was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Thereafter, he earned a J.D. from Temple University Beasley School of Law, where he participated in the Integrated Trial Advocacy Program. Following graduation from law school in the year 2000, he was admitted to the practice of law in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Edward R. Summers in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas. From December of 2003 to July of 2016, he served as a full-time Support Hearing Officer in the Domestic Relations Branch of Philadelphia Family Court. From January of 2018 to February of 2019, he served as a Custody Hearing Officer, where he developed and implemented new procedures to effect the prompt resolution of custody relocation cases. In May of 2019, he was elected as a board member of the Philadelphia Board of Revision of Taxes, an independent seven-member board that adjudicates residential and commercial property tax assessment appeals, where he served until returning to the judiciary in December of 2019. Judge Sulman is a member of the Temple University Political Science Advisory Board. He is a member of the Philadelphia Bar Association and a former chair of the Family Law Section’s Support and Alimony Committee. He has served as a faculty member at numerous continuing legal education courses related to family law offered by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. Judge Sulman is a charter member and executive committee member of the Nicholas A. Cipriani American Inn of Court, where he previously served four years as chapter secretary.Judge Sulman says: “I am a 1993 graduate of NEHS (Class of 152) and I participated in junior varsity basketball, as well as junior varsity and varsity football at NEHS. I am married to Shelby, a school teacher, who is also a NEHS school graduate (1995, class of 154). We have a son in 7th grade and a daughter in 10th grade. My hobbies include being a longtime fan of the Philadelphia Eagles, Sixers, and Phillies.” |
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David Gabai, the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University, is a leading mathematical researcher, having made fundamental contributions to the fields of foliations, 3- manifold topology, hyperbolic geometry and smooth 4-manifold topology, solving many long- standing open problems and opening up new areas of research.His recognitions include the Veblen Prize in Geometry from the American Mathematical Society, the Clay Research Prize from the Clay Foundation, membership in the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. He has delivered two invited lectures at International Congresses of Mathematicians in addition to giving numerous named lectures.
He served seven years as Chair of the Princeton University Mathematics Department and served on the scientific advisory boards of the American Institute of Mathematics, the Simons Foundation’s Mathematics and Physical Sciences division, and The Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics. He has been called to serve as an editor on the two leading mathematics journals: the Annals of Mathematics and the Journal of the American Mathematical Society. David is a proud member of the Class 131, graduating June 1972. He valued his time at Northeast and especially appreciated being treated as an individual and respected as a student. Following Northeast, he attended MIT receiving a BS in Mathematics and then a MA and Ph. D. from Princeton University. After Princeton he spent six years as an itinerant mathematician working at Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Institute for Advanced Study, Institutdes Hautes Études Scientifiques and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley CA. He then spent 15 years at Caltech before returning to Princeton in 2001. He has trained in Shotokan Karate for over 44 years. He has two kids and lives with his wife of 40 years in Princeton, New Jersey. |
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Dr. Teller was born and raised in Northeast Philadelphia and grew up in the Rhawnhurst neighborhood. His early years were a struggle, being diagnosed with a learning disability and autism. He overcame it. He won the academic plus award and the Alfred Oppenheim Award for academics and sportsmanship at Solis-Cohen Elementary School. At Northeast, he excelled academically and was inducted into the National Honor Society and won the perfect attendance award twice. He was on the track team and won the Presidential Academic Fitness Award and a partial academic scholarship to Temple University. Dr. Teller was on the Dean’s List multiple semesters, and he was inducted into the Phi Sigma Pi National Honor Fraternity, the Psi Chi National Honor Fraternity and Psi Chi, the National Honor Society in psychology. He graduated with honors in 1993, and was a Dean’s Scholar. He was awarded the Distinguished Russell Conwell Center Award as an outstanding alumnus in May 2002. He attended Fairfield University for his Master’s degree. Dr. Teller graduated with an M.A. in Applied Psychology in 1996. That year he was asked to present his Master’s paper at a multicultural diversity conference at Fairfield University which was greatly received. The title of the paper was The Effects of Culture on Learning Disabilities. Dr. Teller then attended Walden University where he formed the first ever virtual psychology club which evolved into the Walden University chapter of Psi Chi. His dissertation is entitled, “The Effects of Jewish Religious Identity and Age on Levels of Perceived Academic Stress”. During the graduation he was asked to present his dissertation at a summer symposium, and it was considered one of the best dissertations. Dr. Teller graduated in 2010 with a Ph.D. in Academic/Health Psychology with a specialization in Counseling Psychology. He received his Licensed Professional Counseling Licensed. Dr. Teller currently has a private practice in Holland, PA and consults with Better Help. He was written up in the London UK Daily Mail newspaper based on his help of British author, Jan Lane, aka Jan Greenman’s son who has autism. She credited him with saving her son’s life. He was also written up in the Jewish Exponent about that story, and ASERT magazine for autism published an article about his work with autistic clients in 2018. Dr. Teller has an international reputation where he helps clients all over the world. He has aided the police in catching criminals also.Dr. Teller enjoys music and photography especially of birds, farms and weather vanes, bird watching, theatre, traveling, and collecting sports cards and memorabilia. He loves the Phillies and was written up in the book For Phillies Fans Only by Rich Wolfe. He has sports memorabilia from around the world from countries like Australia, Israel, England, Japan, Canada, etc.Dr. Teller’s kindergarten teacher told his mother that he would never do well in school. In middle school, his math teacher did not think he should take algebra because she thought that he would never get into college, and he insisted on taking the course. He passed algebra with flying colors. He was elected president of the Northeast High School Alumni Association. He enjoys giving the speeches at the assembly for graduating seniors on Alumni Day. The seniors cheered loudly when he said that he overcame his autism to earn his Ph.D. He encouraged all seniors to strive for the best and work hard to prove the nay sayers wrong, as he did. The path to success is often by perseverance. |
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